The Invisible Life
With works by twelve Portuguese artists, the exhibition’s title has its origin in the book A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão[1], by Brazilian writer Martha Batalha....
With works by twelve Portugues...
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Nós by Maja Escher and Sérgio Carronha at Monitor
All we ask is to be sown on earth is a sentence said by the collective of wheat grains, claiming to exist according to the cycles of nature and not under the industrial and alienated production system that pushes them away from the former. The...
All we ask is to be sown on ea...
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Seminário: Curated Research_The Academy as Medium at Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra
Part of the Convergent Programme of Anozero’21-22: Bienal de Coimbra, the Seminário project is a response to curators Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira’s challenge to the College of Arts....
Part of the Convergent Program...
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Outra Língua, by Keli Freitas, Raquel André, Tita Maravilha and Nádia Yracema.
Outra Língua is a performance-conference where performativity almost always relies on the word. With it, they can propose or imagine a linguistic intervention capable of changing the reality we inhabit....
Outra Língua is a performance...
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SOBRE O CÉU NÃO SABEMOS NADA: PARALAXE
Paralaxe is the name of the collective of Luísa Abreu, Carolina Grilo Santos and Diana Geiroto Gonçalves. They have developed numerous projects, almost always crossing art research and scientific research, in editorial, virtual, exhibition and curatorial formats....
Paralaxe is the name of the co...
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Interview with Luísa Jacinto, now on Umbigo’s cover of the month
Mafalda Ruão interviews Luísa Jacinto, the author of the June cover of Umbigo’s online edition, who has an endless dialogue with painting; after all, this has within itself the relentless hermeneutic, the quest for the reason for being. At first, a gesture that rips the...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Luís...
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Crossing dialogues
The text introducing the exhibition Faro-Oeste by Pauliana Valente Pimentel explains that the set of thirty photographs (from a larger group, since those now exhibited in Lagos are in a different number from the ones that were on show at Faro’s Municipal Museum from November...
The text introducing the exhib...
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Postcards from the Edge
In commemoration of Pride Month, we are republishing online the first ever article of Umbigo magazine's new Queer Art dossier, The Velvet Room, which appeared in Umbigo #80. Also we wished to update the text, following the final sentencing in court after the death of...
In commemoration of Pride Mont...
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Limiar da Trilogia – Ato 2/3. Manicómio at Fidelidade Arte
Limiar da Trilogia is an exhibition cycle that allows art to be what it is: the object of a paralinguistic expression, compounded by fears, frustrations, hesitations, illnesses, manias, but also achievements, breakthroughs, care, and healing....
Limiar da Trilogia is an exhib...
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Testing limits in the gaps
At different points, while visiting Gabriela Albergaria’s exhibition at Museu Municipal de Tavira (Palácio da Galeria), the visitor can feel and probe the limits....
At different points, while vis...
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